Monthly Archive: November 2007

At last, Russia has a homegrown star to match Borat. Peter Nalitch’s cheesy pop video “Gitar” has taken the newly launched youtube.ru by storm, notching up more than 350,000 views already. Seriously – who...

With just a couple of weeks to go until Russia’s parliamentary elections on 2nd December, it’s looking increasingly as though United Russia are set for a massive victory. However, depressingly, only two of the...

Israel beat Russia 2-1 on Saturday, a result which leaves Russia’s hopes of qualifying for football’s Euro 2008 hanging by a slender thread and proves comprehensively that Israel are the most honest team in...

Russia is brilliantly playing divide and conquer with European Union nations, argues a new paper from the European Council on Foreign Relations. In “A Power Audit of EU – Russia Relations“, authors Mark Leonard...

Now, I know Vladimir Putin has a certain… mystique. But I must confess, I’d never thought of Russia’s President as particularly sexy. But, apparently, Putin’s good looks send the Japanese weak at the knees....